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JHB

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5. Conservatives have made ideological "correctness" mandatory for...

Reply to Joe941 (Original post)

Fri Mar 8, 2019, 05:59 AM

Mar 2019

...judges nominated by Republican presidents. Explicitly conservative groups like the Federalist Society and Heritage Foundation provide the lists of potential nominees.

There is a dedicated, long-term conservative effort to "undo" court decisions that they don't like, from the ruling that there is an implicit right to privacy to the decisions that confirmed the New Deal was constitutional.

There is nothing equivalent on our side.

So yes, there are Reagan judges, Bush judges, and Trump judges. And conservatives will talk about Clinton on and Obama judges even though the only thing that really means is that those judges fail to be conservative operatives.

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We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges... [View all] Joe941 Mar 2019 OP

Trump began this nonsense Amyishere Mar 2019 #1

Trump was right. mr_liberal Mar 2019 #2

Sadly this is a fact. That is why lawyers shop around for the best venue for their case. SunSeeker Mar 2019 #3

After the Manafort sentencing pressbox69 Mar 2019 #4

Obama had a SCOTUS judge pick IGNORED. Democrats got ZERO from that "choice." VOX Mar 2019 #8

Well said! Brawndo Mar 2019 #20

Thanks. VOX Mar 2019 #21

Sure! You bring up a point worth repeating Brawndo Mar 2019 #23

Thanks, friend. The matter needs to be drilled repeatedly. VOX Mar 2019 #24

No, Republicans choose conservatives, Democrats choose non-conservatives JHB Mar 2019 #12

Dems tend just appoint judges who follow the law. SunSeeker Mar 2019 #14

oh come on fescuerescue Mar 2019 #15

"Everybody" does not know that. One side actively cultivates a farm team... JHB Mar 2019 #18

ok fescuerescue Mar 2019 #19

Please refrain from taking my point to absurd extremes JHB Mar 2019 #22

Respectfully, I thought the original point was a bit absurb. fescuerescue Mar 2019 #25

Conservatives have made ideological "correctness" mandatory for... JHB Mar 2019 #5

This sentence given Manafort duforsure Mar 2019 #6

Judges by law are supposed to be non-partisan. Chin music Mar 2019 #7

Ideally, yes, but many judges no longer adhere to impartiality in real life. VOX Mar 2019 #9

Don't mistake partisanship for weirdness theboss Mar 2019 #17

Yes. I know. Chin music Mar 2019 #26

regardless of any of that, what the judge did in this case is fucked up in itself JI7 Mar 2019 #10

I'm thinking it is only important to know that Ellis was appointed by Reagan because Silver Gaia Mar 2019 #11

Vinca may have the answer to this: Lars39 Mar 2019 #13

I think people misapply political philosphies to criminal law. theboss Mar 2019 #16

Ellis, Judge Boof, Gorsucks et al are all politicians in robes. Some, like Ellis are Hassler Mar 2019 #27